EDITORIAL 



501 



help to make the coming meeting the filled with such suggestions from no\\ 

 most memorable in the association's to the time of the annual meeting, 

 history. 



The plans contemplate the elimina- >% % % 



ti. m of all dry. routine reports; such 

 reports, it has been decided, are to be 

 submitted in printed form, and the time 

 of the meeting is to be given up wholly 

 to the actual, live work of the associa- 

 tion. It is the intention to have pres- 

 ent some of the ablest speakers on the 



Another Form of Activity 



A 



PERSISTENTLY recurring s' 

 geMion that comes to the office of 



the Association in one form or another 

 from all parts of the country i> that 

 conservation problem, and to set be- we should enlarge our activities by 

 fore the country, in plain English un- adopting a new sort of educational 

 adorned with Mowers of rhetoric, or un- work. The work suggested is that of 

 marred with long tabulations of what encouraging the organization of local 

 the Association has done in the past clubs for the study of forestry and the 

 year, exact statements of what is re- allied phases of the conservation move- 

 quired in the way of taking 

 care of our remaining natural 

 resources. It is the intention 

 to have graphic statement- 

 from acknowledged experts, 

 of the exact conditions of the 

 Nation's natural resources, 

 and it is the aim of the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee to make 

 our coming annual meeting as 

 full of interest not only to 

 our members, but to the coun- 

 try at large as was the con- 

 ference at the White House 

 last May. 



It has been suggested that 

 the individual members of the 

 \ssociation send to this office 

 suggestions as to what, in 

 their opinions, should be in- 

 cluded in the discussion at 

 the coming annual meeting. 



These suggestions, it should be borne ment. While at the present time it 

 in mind. -h<>uld be brief and to -ecms. for many reasons, imjxis.sible 

 the point; and it is hoped, from the for the Association to take up. actively, 

 mass of suggestions. t> work out a the work su^e-ted. it ha- -ecmed that 

 profitable, as well as highly entertain- there is more than a -mall measure of 

 ing. program. It is the belief of tli practical value in the idea, 



in control of the W< Ration's affairs It is sugge-ted that the \--oeiation\ 



that the member- should IK- ur^ed to held of usefulness can be vastly en- 

 take a more active part in the work of larged by the adoption of -ome plan 

 the oj-gani/ation : and it is thought that of this kind < Mir- is a nation of club- 

 by following the plan suggested above. men ami clubwomen: not a village but 

 a more active interest can he arouse- 1 l la - its IJrowning or Shakespeare club. 

 and held. Stiu^'^ti""- along the lines and the interest in purely -< , c ial organi- 

 here suggested will be gladly received. xatious such as these would s C em to in- 

 and this office hopes to find its mail well dicate a fertile field of usefulness for 



USE OF A NATIONAL FOREST 

 Homestead Located in the Black Hills N. F.. South Dakota 



